Rebuilding Lives in Northern Ireland
Posted in Interesting Fact on Jan 26th, 2016
Research by scientists and archeologists in several leading universities in Ireland has begun to reveal aspects of lives and genetic traits of the early Irish. The bodies of three Bronze Age men who were buried on Rathlin Island around 4,000 yrs. ago reveal that one third of their genetic ancestry came from a region around […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Jan 15th, 2016
Skellig Michael, Co Kerry was named an historic site in 1996 by UNESCO, the World Heritage Site. Star Wars recently filmed there but it is likely it will not be used for the next two Star Wars. While it was being filmed, there was some damage to the steps leading to the summit. Instead, a […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Jan 9th, 2016
The fastest growing export from Ireland is hair products. These include wigs, false eye lashes, feathers, pig bristles and badger hair.
Posted in Interesting Fact on Jan 5th, 2016
A crannog was an island fortress situated in an isolated lough created with a ring of stakes in water and filled in with earth and stone. It was used as a defensible bunker to hide prisoners or treasure.
Posted in Interesting Fact on Jan 2nd, 2016
Stone of the Kings or Stone of Destiny is located at Tara in Co Meath. It was used as the inauguration mound at the Hill of Tara which served as the coronation stone for the High Kings of Ireland.
Posted in Interesting Fact on Dec 30th, 2015
St. Patrick’s Bell is located in the National Museum in Dublin. This Bell was mentioned in the Book of Cuanic in 552 AD. It is part of a collection of relics of Patrick removed from his tomb 60 years after his death by Colmcille. It is a simple design hammered into shape with a small […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Dec 17th, 2015
Mussenden Tower sits on top of the Derry Cliffs. It was the creation of the 18th Century Anglican Bishop Fredrick Harvey who built it in honor of his cousin Frideswide Mussenden who died before it was completed. Harvey allowed the Catholics to use it for Mass since there was no local church for them.
Posted in Interesting Fact on Dec 11th, 2015
Munster is the largest county in Ireland. It has three of the Republic’s six cities, four of the great rivers and the great estuary of the Shannon which is the longest river in Ireland and Britain.
Posted in Interesting Fact on Nov 30th, 2015
Turlogh Carolan 1670-1738, was called the ‘last and the greatest” of all the bards by Oliver Goldsmith. The blind harpist was also a poet, composer. musician and also sang his own verses to the harp.
Posted in Interesting Fact on Nov 26th, 2015
Shiploads of food from Ireland saved the Pilgrims from starvation in 1676.
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